While the chandelier pieces were fired, the potters were taskedwith banding a set of plates…

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Which turned out to be trickier than it looked.

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The challenges didn’t get any easier, with Keith’s spherical throw down…

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Throw a perfectly closed sphere, you say?

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Here, Jim was crowned King of the Wheel,with this great curve.

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And so, onwards, to hanging that main make…

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We could barely watch, but fortunately there were no major breakages.

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Considering none of the potters had slip
cast with bone china before…

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We were impressed with their final pieces:
(Here’s Jim’s compact leaf design).

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And we loved Sally-Jo’s cascading feathery work.

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However, not everybody excelled.Tom’s piece was marked as lacking direction…

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And Jane’s sparse patterned chandelier led to this episode being the end of her Throw Down road.

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In the end, Matthew’s quilted design made him Top Potter
for a third week running, firming him up as favourite for the final.

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The Great Pottery Throw Down airs this autumn on Tuesdays on BBC2 at 9pm.Ceramic Review can be found live tweeting each Tuesday evening @ceramicreview. Inside our two latest issues we’ve featured both the judges and the pottery technicians from behind-the-scenes. Discover more here: ceramicreview.com/magazine